Bleecker Awning

JazzValve

DOMINANT · Intermediate · C7

Key

Written C / Concert B♭

· = original key (C). Notes, fingerings, chords, audio and sheet music are written B♭ pitch.

OPEN

E♭♭3

OPEN

1 + 2

OPEN

♩ = 124 · four-beat count-in · ● valve down · ○ valve up

Orange numbers = scale degree of each note over the chord sounding beneath it

What you're hearing

The ♭3 moving into the major 3rd creates blues color.
9ths and 6ths/13ths are upper extensions that add color above the basic chord tones.
Half-step runs act as chromatic approach tones leading into the next chord tone.

How to play it

Start on the beat with swung eighths and settle on the final E. Give Eb its own valve change rather than smearing it; listen for the blue third rubbing against E.

Where you are with it

Practice this with

C MINOR BLUESScale ii–V–I in CProgression